While in a re-certification class at SANS Network Security, a local news story catches my attention. It's a coroner's inquest into the death of Erik Scott, who was shot here in July outside a Costco store by officers of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police (LVMP) after a store employee spotted Scott's firearm, which he had a permit to carry.

There's limited time while we drink from the SANS fire hose to absorb the day's news events. But I picked up the following from an op-ed piece by Scott's father in the Las Vegas Sun. The dead man's family is harshly critical the investigative process, and not without justification, if William Scott's account is accurate.

The elder Scott says the investigation has been entirely internal, conducted by LVMP. Scott is an aerospace journalist who notes that if an airline pilot has an accident that results in a

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